Magazines at some point made a decision that the primary audience they cared about were the advertisers.

And the audience was the means to get to the advertisers, as opposed to the other way around.

Abuse is not 24-hour news cycles anymore. It's our news cycles. It's every day updating the website.

The idea of being able to create platforms and audiences that are truly elite,

not the kind of elite of mediocrities that we've had in the last few decades,

but a real elite is very possible now.

The summer of 2020 marked a turning point in American media.

Legacy institutions are shrinking and independence are rising.

On this episode of monitoring the situation, we're joined by Tablet Magazine founder and editor-in-chief,

Alana Doohouse.

We covered the great media realignment,

Alana's two pyramids of legacy versus independent media,

the transition to a golden age of subscription-based media,

and why real institutions will outlast the new internet pirates.

Jay's media is more fragmented and interesting than ever.

Let's get into it.

We're back for monitoring the situation episode two with very special guest, Alana.

Alana, thanks for joining the podcast.

So great to be here with you guys. So we're really grateful to have our first Nepo baby, Alana Newhouse, of Condonast fame.

Just kidding. There's no relation.

But that's actually a perfect segue to one of the main stories this week.

Of course, Alana is also a media mogul. They know in right running tablet. And media is one of the big stories of the week. We have the free press. A report came out that it's being acquired in the process of being acquired. You two are board members of the free press. Obviously, you can't comment on any of the specific details, but let's have a more meta conversation on the state of media.

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